Day #3

This whole night shift thing kind of sucks, my class was complaining how the day is shot when you have to come in at 3:30 and don't get out till 12:00. I'll tell ya, it definitely will take some getting use to. Having done nothing all day, and finally getting in the academy at 3:30 isn't too fun.

Today we finished up the history, background, and all team positions in the tower, tracon, and center. That was only the first maybe 3-4 hours? But either way, we got many breaks and we had our dinner break at around 6. Most of us weren't hungry because we tried to eat before the class, but the only place that is opened around 6 at the academy was Ted's.

After that we got back in, and reviewed lesson 1 and took the test on it. Was very simple, and the class average was 97. Really it wasn't too hard, just listen to what is going on in the review and during all the explanation. After that, we got another break, came back and looked over the test, and went over any questions anyone got wrong.

Then started Lesson 2. We started learning about airports, keep in mind we are all center folks, but we learn this all in basics just to know what our counterparts do, and also, really neat information because now I know what all the stuff in the airport road markings. This lesson included airports, airport lighting, and airport markings. This lesson took the rest of our 4 hours and it really wasn't too hard, just a lot of stuff that you need to memorize and where everything is and is called that is on the airport. After the lesson, we reviewed and took the lesson 2 test. Class average on this one was a 93. Someone missed a lighting question, "What color is the side edge lights?" It is blue. But it doesn't matter, because it was a good average.

Overall it was a pretty long day due to the late shift and all of the material we covered.